BA Modern Languages and History
Entry requirements
A level: BBB, including History or a humanities-based essay subject. Humanities-based essay subjects include: Classical Civilisation, English Language, English Literature, Geography, Philosophy, Politics, Religious Studies. IB: 30 points overall including 5 in History or a humanities-based essay subject at higher level.
About this course
BA in Hebrew and Jewish Studies and History, combining two distinct areas of study over four years. Core topics include Research Methods, Fieldwork, and Historical Research. The third year includes a period abroad for language study and a work placement. An independent research project is completed in the final year.
Modules
- Perspectives in History
- Making History and You: Practices and Possibilities
- Beginners French, German, Italian or Spanish Language
- Intermediate French, German, Italian or Spanish Language
- Advanced French, German, Italian or Spanish Language I
- Ideas of Frenchness 1
- The Making of Contemporary Germany
- Making Italians: A Journey in the History and Culture of Modern Italy
- The Making of Modern Spain and Latin America
- Rape in the United States: From Colonisation to Civil Rights
- Warfare in Early Modern Europe, c.1500-1715
- Doomsday Dystopias: Nuclear Disaster in the Cold War Imagination
- US Environmental Diplomacy from Nixon to Obama
- Arriving in Britain: A History of Immigration, 1685-2004
- 'After Malthus': Sex, Society Sustainability and the Politics of Population in the Long Nineteenth Century
- Merlin the Magician
- Ideas of Frenchness 2
- Belonging in Germany
- Introduction to Linguistics (for students of Italian)
- Introduction to Spanish and Latin American Culture
- Liberty and Empire in the Making of the Modern World
- Thinking Translation: History and Theory
- Introduction to Linguistics
- Intermediate French, German, Italian or Spanish Language
- Advanced French, German, Italian or Spanish Language I
- Advanced French, German, Italian or Spanish Language II
- The First World War: Then and Now
- Cinema of Germany
- 'Apocalittici e integrati': Intellectuals and Society in Twentieth Century Italy
- Transatlantic Exchanges: Latin America in the Global Nineteenth Century
- Culture and Revolution in Modern Latin America
- How to Think in French
- Children’s Books in France
- Glorification, Denial and Contempt – Reconstructing Austria's Past
- One Country, Many Languages: Linguistic Variety and Society in Contemporary Italy
- Modern and Contemporary Spanish Narratives
- Culture, communication and context: contemporary challenges in the interconnected world
- Going Public: Presenting the Past, Planning the Future
- People, Power and Revolution: Political Culture in Seventeenth-Century England
- Hollywood Histories: Film and the Past
- Europe in the Twentieth Century
- Medieval Medicine
- American Century: United States History since 1898
- 'The Brightest Jewel in the British Crown': The Making of Modern South Asia, 1757-1947
- Reform and Revolt in the Modern Middle East: Egypt from Ataturk to the 'Arab Spring'
- The Crusades, 1095-1291
- Encountering the Atlantic World, 1450-1850
- Kingship and Crisis in England, c.1154-1330
- Women and Medieval History
- Black Britain: Race and Migration in Post-War Britain
- The Colonial Experience: Africa since 1879
- Preparing for your Dissertation
- Noise Annoys: British Youth Culture, Popular Music and Social Change, 1950s-90s
- Medieval Europe: Power, Religion and Death
- From Revolution to Reconstruction: A Social History of the Nineteenth-Century USA
- Society, Thought and Art in Modern Europe
- Unity, Nationalism and Regionalism in Europe
- Study Year Abroad
- Language and Power
- Extended Essay
- Advanced French, German, Italian or Spanish Language I
- Advanced French, German, Italian or Spanish Language II
- Advanced French, German, Italian or Spanish Language III
- The German Language and National identity
- Memory, Dictatorship and Cultural Resistance in the Southern Cone
- Future Worlds in Film
- Narrating the Colombian Conflict
- Writers and Publishers in Spain
- War on Screen - Germany and its films about WWII
- Language, Diversity, and Inclusion: The Representation of Otherness in the Italian Context
- Philanthropy à la française : The History of Ideas and Practices in the French Third Sector
- Dissertation in History
- Becoming a Revolutionary: The Old Regime and the French Revolution, 1787-1794
- Heretics and Popes: Heresy and Persecution in the Medieval World
- Sexual Politics: Gender, Sex, and Feminism in Britain after 1918
- Slavery in America
- Anarchy in the UK: Punk, Politics and Youth Culture in Britain, 1976-84
- Medieval Magic and the Origins of the Witch-Craze
- 'Battleaxes and Benchwarmers': Early Female MPs 1919-1931
- History of Education
- Axis at War: Life and Death in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, 1936-45
- From Darwin to Death Camps? Evolution and Eugenics in European society, 1859-1945
- The American Civil War
- Utopia: The Quest for a Perfect World
- Poor Law to Hostile Environment: Repatriation, Deportation and Exclusion from Britain 1800-2016
- Gender in Africa: From Eighteenth Century 'Amazons' to Twentieth Century Child Soldiers
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Empire, Slavery, and Society, 1550-1750
- May '68
- French Popular Music and Society
- The United States and the Cold War